Dreamer Quotes - Page 19

• We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Life, Music, Dream

  'Ode" l. 7 (1874)

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• The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?

  Carson McCullers

  Struggle, Character, Humility

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• The universe conspires to help the dreamer

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Helping, Universe

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 04, 2014

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• It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ambition, Doers, Individual

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.

  Christine Pelosi

  Dream, House, Deportation

  "Feminists Must Advance Immigrants’ Rights as Women’s Rights" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Instead of taking a year off, I started Dreamers of the Day exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for A Thread of Grace to the publisher!

  Mary Doria Russell

  Years, Grace, Hours

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• You can be a dreamer, but don't live in your bed.

  Sho Baraka

  Bed

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• My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp blades of the present. Somewhere in my brain a sinkhole is bubbling over, and each bubble contains a scene from a tiny sunken world ... I have never been the prophet of my own past before. It makes me wonder how the healthy dreamers can bear to sleep at all, if sleep means that you have to peer into that sinkhole by yourself. ... I had almost forgotten this occipital sorrow, the way you are so alone with the things you see in dreams.

  Karen Russell

  Dream, Mean, Sleep

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• The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history-the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen

  Robert Greene

  War, Mistake, Emotion

  50 Cent, Robert Greene (2010). “The 50th Law”, p.45, Profile Books

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• I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Dream, Teaching, Reading

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• Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Creativity, Persistence, Ideas

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• No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something better than the factory man. That is, and has always been, beyond the realm of science. You do have the attitude of the dreamer about you. For that reason, I haven't the heart to argue anymore about this - it is a hopeless talk. And for a simple factory man like me, an effort must be abandoned once its hopelessness is exposed. Only the artist perseveres in such circumstances. (193)

  David Wroblewski

  Attitude, Heart, Men

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• Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We don't want capitalism. We want a decent society.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Peaceful, World

  Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009”, p.258, Haymarket Books

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• Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!

  Sarah Carter

  Thinking, World, Way

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com. August 8, 2011.

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• The dreamer is a madman quiescent,
  the madman is a dreamer in action.

  Frederic Henry Hedge

  Action, Madmen

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• In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And thats why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Heart, Ideas, Hands

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• The DREAMers are the safe ones, right? It's okay to advocate for the DREAMers because they're the English-speaking, college-educated ones, right? It's so interesting that I set out to document DREAMers, but what I ended up doing was actually documenting the experience of, the reality and truth of, the moms and the parents.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Mom, Reality, Interesting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.

  John Lennon

  Teamwork, Dream, Hope

  Song: Imagine

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• We're dreamers and - since we only have one life, and if we screw up we can get in a world of trouble - we're very intense dreamers.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Screw Ups, World, Trouble

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.

  Richard Gere

  Bits

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• When we can't dream any longer we die.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Dream, Hope

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Dream, Dry Up

  "Harlem" l. 1 (1951)

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• To all the dreamers out there, don't give up on your dreams.

  Wynonna Judd

  Dream, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Positive, Dream, Time

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